[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#646335: empathy apparently does not support QQ....

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:25:24 +0800,
Clayton <ckoeni at gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:39:13 +0200
> Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Well actually empathy support QQ through telepathy-haze.
> > Empathy is suggesting telepathy-haze already, maybe this could be
> > bumped to a Recommends.
> 
> Without a little documentation / explanation, the connection between
> empathy and QQ is a little tenuous, don't you think?
> 
> apt-cache search qq
> 
> returns empathy, but not pidgin. I would think under the circumstances
> either both should, or both should not, advertise QQ support?
> 
> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/13193 says
> "We have decided to discontinue support of the QQ protocol in
> libpurple and Pidgin as of version 2.8.0."

Ok, this is interesting. I will review the description to be sure we
have a correct list of supported protocols.

> 
> I have in fact recently found this unofficial Pidgin QQ plugin 
> https://code.google.com/p/libqq-pidgin/
> that works on Debian testing right out of the Ubuntu PPA and I am
> using it right now.
> 
> It would be nice if this found it's way into the Debian archive and
> into the hands of more people, there are hundreds of millions (no
> exaggeration) of QQ users in China, and these days significant numbers
> of them are Ubuntu (and thus Debian) users.
> 
> As it stands the plugin is very hard to find and get installed.

For the plugin I guess you will want to open a bug against pidgin or
open a RFP (Request For Packaging).

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville